First Indian player in sports...
The first in India or the first Indian to achieve some distinct distinction in various disciplines of sports. The table below list the important achievements in the field of sports (India).
| First Indian player in sports | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Achievement | Sports-person | |||
| The first Indian to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games. | KD Jadhav | |||
| The first Indian to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. | Abhinav Bindra | |||
| The first Indian woman to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games. | Karnam Malleswari (Weight Lifting) | |||
| 1st Indian to win Olympic medals at two consecutive Olympic Games. | Sushil Kumar | |||
| The first Indian woman wrestler to win an Asian gold medal. | Navjot Kaur | |||
| The first person to win the international bronze medal in skiing. | Aanchal Thakur | |||
| The first Indian (also the first Asian) to win the Wimbledon junior Singles title. | Ramanathan Krishnan(in 1954) | |||
| The first Indian to win a Grand Slam title (French Open mixed doubles title in 1997). | Mahesh Bhupathi | |||
| The first Indian to achieve a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles. | Mahesh Bhupathi (2006) | |||
| The first Indian to achieve a career Grand Slam in doubles. | Leander Paes (2012) | |||
| The first Indian to become a world champion in billiards. | Wilson Jones | |||
| India's first Grandmaster and also the first Indian to win the FIDE World Chess Championship. | Vishwanathan Anand | |||
| The first Indian to win the under 10 World Chess Championship. | P. Harikrishna | |||
| The first Indian to win the All England Badminton Championship. | Prakash Padukone | |||
| The first Indian gymnast to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games. | Ashish Kumar | |||
| The first Indian woman to receive the Grandmaster's title. | Koneru Humpy | |||
| The youngest Indian to win the Grandmaster title. | Parimarjan Negi (13 years 3 months and 22 days) | |||
| The youngest Indian to captain its test cricket team. | Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi | |||
| The first Indian to swim across the English Channel. | Mihir Sen (1958) | |||
| The first Indian woman (also Asian woman) to swim across the English Channel. | Aarti Saha (1959) | |||
| The first woman in the world to swim the seven seas. | Bula Chaudhary | |||
| The first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Games | Kamaljit Sandhu | |||
| The first Woman to Win a Medal in Wrestling. | Sakshi Malik won Bronze in the 2016 Summer Olympics | |||
| The first Indian women athlete to win a medal at a world event (Bronze at World Athletics Championship, 2003). | Anju Bobby George | |||
| The first Indian woman to win a Grand Slam title. | Sania Mirza | |||
| The first Woman to Win an Olympic Silver Medal in Badminton. | P. V. Sindhu | |||
| The first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships and also to win a Super Series tournament, (by clinching the Indonesia Open). First Indian woman to be ranked World No. 1 | Saina Nehwal | |||
| 1st recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. | Viswanathan Anand | |||
| 1st woman recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. | Karnam Malleswari | |||
| 1st recipient of Dhyanchand Lifetime Achievement Award. | Aparna Ghosh | |||
| 1st cricket player to be awarded the Arjuna Award. | Salim Durrani | |||
| The first Indian Batsman to complete 10000 runs in Test Cricket. | Sunil Gavaskar | |||
| The first indian cricketer to play 1 over 6 sixes. | Ravi Shastri | |||
| The first Indian Batsman to complete 10000 runs in One Day Cricket. | Sachin Tendulkar | |||
| The first Indian Formula 1 race driver. | Narain Karthikeyan | |||
| The first Indian Formula 1 team. | Force India | |||
| 1st Indian recipient of International Cricket Council's Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (also the first in the world). | Rahul Dravid | |||
| 1st Indian recipient of Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World. | Virender Sehwag | |||
| The first Indian Cricketer to score a triple century. | Virendra Sehwag | |||
| The first Indian Cricketer to take hat trick in Test Cricket. | Harbhajan Singh | |||
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